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Telecommunications Southern Cross upgrades capacity on US submarine cable
Telecommunications Southern Cross upgrades capacity on US submarine cable | Southern Cross upgrades capacity on US submarine cable |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 23 August 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 3 According to Pfeffer "Total installed capacity on the two Southern Cross cables was only 80Gbps in 2001. By January 2003 we had expanded to 480Gbps and by end-2008 total installed capacity will be 860Gbps. The announcement comes as Pipe Networks gets close to making a final go-or-no go decision on its plans to lay a submarine cable from Sydney to Guam where it will interconnect with international links owned by VSNL International to provide an alternative route to the US and elsewhere. For Pipe lack of capacity was never the issue: it simply claimed that lack of an alternative to systems owned by the major carriers kept prices artificially high. Announcing its upgrade, Southern Cross said, enigmatically that "With the upgrade contract signed Southern Cross is now reassessing the commercial requirements of the changing Australasian capacity market." |
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